Great War Lives Lost

James Thomas Byford McCudden VC

Major James Thomas Byford McCudden VC (Royal Air Force) is accidentally killed at age 23 when his aircraft stalls after takeoff and crashes.  He is a fifty-seven-victory ace and has a brother who is killed in the Great War also after becoming a fighter ace and a second killed in training.

Today’s losses include:

• A 57-victory ace
• Multiple sons of members of the clergy
• Families that will lose two and three sons in the Great War
• A Military Chaplain

Today’s highlighted casualties include:

• Captain William Guthrie Salmond (Wellington Infantry) is killed at age 26. He is the son of ‘Sir’ John Salmond.
• Second Lieutenant Horace Edgar Kingsmill Bray (Royal Air Force) is accidentally killed at home at age 22. He is the son of the Reverend Horace Bray, Rector of Thamesford, Ontario.
• Second Lieutenant Eric Cross Arnold Runnels-Moss (Royal Field Artillery) dies of wounds as a prisoner of war at age 19. He is the son of the Reverend Arthur Runnels-Moss, Vicar of Ladywood, Birmingham who lost another son in December 1917.
• Chaplain “the Reverend” Arthur Percival Hatfield dies on active service in Mesopotamia. He is the son of the Reverend Thomas Hatfield.